Richard Alley Dances to Explain Ice Ages, CO2 and Global Warming

Penn State climate expert and glaciologist Richard Alley does a quirky dance to explain ice-age cycles, then shows how the natural warm and cool phases of climate help prove that more CO2 will warm the world in the long haul.

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Science & Technology

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• global
• warming
• climate
• change
• climatology
• environment

[Sugardaddy501]

@sunshine3sky seconded

[nigelelsass]

@anon3560 : I know, I know - I am not enough into conspiracy theories to understand... :-)))

[nigelelsass]

@anon3560 : Anyway, enjoy having your taxes on wealth creation (income tax) instead of activities with negative side-effects. How is your deficit doing? Our 2-3 billion budget surplus is doing well.

How does it feel to be the socialist? The debtor?

[nigelelsass]

@anon3560 : BRILLIANT - The greenhouse effect which makes that we are warmer than the average temperature of the Moon (which receives the same radiation as it is at the same average distance from the sun) is a conspiracy be the Oligarchy... they travelled to the past to tell scientists like Fourrier and Boltzmann what to establish... BRILLIANT - damn, did you even graduate from high school?

[nigelelsass]

@anon3560 : That is just because you live in a shitty country which taxes the hell of you - so you need to be angry at something. Try Switzerland - it is both more capitalist and green that the US - with less bureaucracy - but also less conspiracy theorists who believe there is a plot at every street corner. I feel sorry for you.

[nigelelsass]

@anon3560 : Actually, taxing energy if at all makes me more free.

(1) IF put on income, taxes are unavoidable (unless you work less or use loopholes)

(2) IF put in energy, taxations can be largely decreased by adjusting consumption to the new economic optimum.

Please note that you cannot "switch to CFL" to reduce your income tax. You cannot change your refrigerator to reduce income tax. If taxation is on energy you have more room for decision - as trade offs are offered.

[nigelelsass]

@anon3560

(1) the carbon tax only affect large emitters - not me.

(2) the biofuels we use th most are from biomass residues (doesn't compete with food)

(3) I am free to use as much energy as I want - I just pay the fair price

(4) How is corruption in a market slavery? aren't then all Americans slaves as you have so much corruption?

(5) The greenhouse effect is settled science - even if you reject it on faith (your religion)

Overall you fail at proving my supposed "enslavement"

[nigelelsass]

@anon3560 :

(1) Do you have PROOFS of what you say for Australia???

(2) There are no interference of the UN - only a report published yearly.

(3) nobody is stupid enough here to see it as "police of the air we breath" - if at all measures improved a bit the air quality (this is more freedom as polluting is not a right)

(4) renewable energy makes us more free and independant from other countries - more self-reliant.

(5) my elec. bill has gone up, my income taxes accordingly down (zero sum)

[nigelelsass]

@anon3560 : I have to ask you: AS I LIVE IN A COUNTRY WITH STRINGENT CARBON POLICIES - Please explain to me EXACTLY which aspect of my life is controlled - I am really dying for your answer - so we can check your assumptions against reality !!! Come on, bring it on !!!

[nigelelsass]

@anon3560 : Nice to see that you put ideology first, science last - it doesn't surprise me.

FYI: Putting ideology before facts is precisely what fascists regimes have done.